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The Honor We Owe
What values are we serving today? Are they rooted in our ancestral traditions, or are they given by the same systems whose agenda is the fracture and scattering of the family? Modern society often promotes individualism, consumerism, and a shallow idea of “freedom” that pulls us away from our roots.
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How Colonisation Sustains Itself Through the Family Unit Across Generations / Rewiring the Family to Perpetuate Colonisation
Colonisation rebuilds the family unit in its own image. It replaces names, language, ancestral knowledge and ways of being with those of the coloniser until the colonised become instruments of their own domination.Keep exploring
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How Colonisation Sustains Itself Through the Family Unit Across Generations / Rewiring the Family to Perpetuate Colonisation
Colonisation rebuilds the family unit in its own image. It replaces names, language, ancestral knowledge and ways of being with those of the coloniser until the colonised become instruments of their own domination.
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The Holy Days of Tehuti
Reconciliation with Life and the Divine Education of Humanity By Irishapi Pernebsati The month of Tehuti opens the Kemetic seasonal year with a question: What kind of human beings will we choose to become? Governed by Aishat, the Divine Mother associated with love, faithfulness, protection, family devotion and the power
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Astronomical Timing: What We Need To Know: The Sidereal Calendar
The Sidereal Calendar is the only concept of time division that is based purely on astronomical knowledge. This calendar, in reality, is 73,300 years old and its quality still imposes itself onto all scientific works of modern astronomy.Cultural
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How Colonisation Sustains Itself Through the Family Unit Across Generations / Rewiring the Family to Perpetuate Colonisation
Colonisation rebuilds the family unit in its own image. It replaces names, language, ancestral knowledge and ways of being with those of the coloniser until the colonised become instruments of their own domination.
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The Laws We Inherited and the Ones We Keep Breaking
Even our language betrays us. We say “it’s just business” to excuse harm. We say “don’t take it personally” when we’ve acted without integrity. We say “it’s complicated” when we don’t want to face the simplicity of right and wrong. This is not sanctimony. This is the human condition.
The Global Crisis of Masculinity and Femininity, A Kemetic Reading of Energetic Imbalance
When the mother and father principles weaken, individuals feel unrooted. They struggle to trust their intuition, to form stable relationships, or to feel at home within themselves. This is not because people are inherently broken. It is because the energetic environment around them is unstable.
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The Honor We Owe
What values are we serving today? Are they rooted in our ancestral traditions, or are they given by the same systems whose agenda is the fracture and scattering of the family? Modern society often promotes individualism, consumerism, and a shallow idea of “freedom” that pulls us away from our roots.
Cosmological Displacement How The Worship of Another’s God Impacts the Self
To be clear, there is no judgment or moral condemnation to be passed on the choices of our ancestors. Without their survival discretion, neither the writer nor reader of this article would be here. There can only be gratitude.
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The Holy Days of Tehuti
Reconciliation with Life and the Divine Education of Humanity By Irishapi Pernebsati The month of Tehuti opens the Kemetic seasonal year with a question: What kind of human beings will we choose to become? Governed by Aishat, the Divine Mother associated with love, faithfulness, protection, family devotion and the power
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Beyond the Technological Republic: How the Global Majority is Choosing Nature
by Djedka Zeshera The rift between the working class and the ruling class has never been wider. Not just in the financial disparity but in the vision for the future that the haves and have-nots hold in their minds. In our history books we read about aristocrats luxuriating in
Return to Nature: Unveiling the Hidden Truth Behind Modern Illness
by Hatnima Shemzura Throughout history, colonial powers didn’t just invade with guns and swords — they invaded with miseducation. Before physically conquering African lands and other parts of the world, the invaders studied and imitated the natural and spiritual ways of a life they found. But instead of honoring whatHarmonious Healing
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The Midwife is a Healer
by Gingi Cleopatri Allen Modern medicine is overly focused on machines and tests, often producing false positives, as the primary way to support pregnant women. Yet the indigenous way, which honors spirit, mind, and body holistically, is the foundation of health for both the pregnant woman and unborn child. Blood
The Bitter Truth About Sugar: A Cultural and Scientific Wake-Up Call
The modern world, with its obsession for convenience and sugar-laden products, has made it all too easy to fall into a vicious cycle of addiction. As a result, many of us, find it harder to escape the grasp of sugar. Sugar fosters dependency.
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